英:['əʊvə'səʊ]
美:['oʊvə'soʊ]
英:['əʊvə'səʊ]
美:['oʊvə'soʊ]
transitive verb
overhand
overcast
to sew (books) by machine simulating hand overcasting, the needles and thread passing diagonally through the book section near the binding edge
1 Overcast′ing, the action of the verb overcast: in bookbinding, a method of oversewing single leaves in hem-stitch style to give the pliability of folded double leaves.
2 Since practically all fiction and juvenile books are oversewed, it will not be necessary to carry the guard around to the inner side of the fold.
3 The two degrees of obscuring or clouding gold by oversewing are here shown in most instructive contrast.
4 If this patch is used to repair skirts near the band, only three sides are oversewed, the upper edge should be gathered into the band.
5 The process of stitching up at the back is simply an oversewing with silk or other strong thread.
6 Some garments, with designs produced by oversewing before dyeing, are seen here, but they are recent importations from the Kulaman or Tagakaolo tribes.
7 If book is not oversewed the first and last sections must be guarded with jaconet.
8 You can well imagine that by this time Mother Carey has taken out her darning, and Kathleen her oversewing, to which she pays little attention because she so adores Nancy's tales.
9 This stitch, like oversewing, may be worked from right to left or from left to right.
10 In small pieces of work, however, there is not much likelihood of strain, so the oversewing at the back answers fairly well.
11 The right side of the skirt and the right side of the belt are placed against each other and each gather oversewed to the belt.
12 It is permissible to stitch sections lengthwise before sewing regularly on bands, but oversewing is preferable.